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Hugh Everett III
US physicist and discoverer of the relative-state interpretation of quantum mechanics · United States · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1930 to 1982 · aged 51 · Born 96 years ago today
Hugh Everett III was an American physicist who proposed the relative state interpretation of quantum mechanics. This influential approach later became the basis of the many-worlds interpretation (MWI).
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Everett's theory dropped the wave function collapse postulate of quantum measurement theory, incorporating the observer in the same quantum state as the observation result. The quantum statistic becomes a measure of the branching of the universal wave function.
